[WinMac] NT not booting from backup boot drive

Michael Curtis(bazmail[at]bazmac.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:54:34 +0000

I have an HP LCIII with 512mb of ram and two processors running NT & sp4. I
have this very strange fault. I was hoping someone might know the answer to.

I have 2x 4GB drives in my server and normally I set the boot partition at
1024mb, install all my software as required and then mirror the drive to the
backup drive. I then break the mirror and write the boot.ini so I can
choose which drive I want the server to boot from. This has worked without
problems on 12 other HP servers.

On this one I did the same thing, but then realised that the boot partition
wasn't big enough. I normally install NT straight on to the drives as they
come out of the box from HP and the setup program only gives me the option
of a 1024mb partition.

I managed to get around this problem by formatting the disk in NT first as
4GB partition and then installing NT as usual. This worked fine until I
mirrored the drive and broke it. It wouldn't boot from the back up drive.
After selecting the backup system it would say the NTKernal was missing and
I should re-install the file. This drive would also not boot if I put it in
the place of the working boot drive. Considering it is a broken mirror why
doesn't it boot? On my 1024mb boot partition machine I could swap the
drives around to my hearts content and it would boot fine.

I decided to rebuild the server again and make it a 2048mb boot partition
and see if that helped. This time when trying to install I would eject the
cd after the first part of the setup process and reboot as usual. The
setup would get to the boot.ini blank the screen as usual, but just hang. I
tried it a few times. I tried it from the floppies with the latest drivers
and booting from the cd using the NT4
drivers. It made no difference.

I went through the exact same setup and made the partition 1024mb and it
worked no problem!!! It seems I can have 4g partition or a 1024mb
partition, but nothing in between.

I thought I had a drive problem, but as the server stands now, it has a 4g
boot partition working fine, and a 1024mb partition on the second drive
with a clean install of NT4, sp4 on it and I can boot it from my boot.ini
no problem.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this happens?

I would welcome any ideas.

Thanks in advance

Michael

<fontfamily><param>Courier_New</param>I have an HP LCIII with 512mb of
ram and two processors running NT & sp4. I

have this very strange fault. I was hoping someone might know the
answer to.

I have 2x 4GB drives in my server and normally I set the boot partition
at

1024mb, install all my software as required and then mirror the drive
to the

backup drive. I then break the mirror and write the boot.ini so I can

choose which drive I want the server to boot from. This has worked
without

problems on 12 other HP servers.

On this one I did the same thing, but then realised that the boot
partition

wasn't big enough. I normally install NT straight on to the drives as
they

come out of the box from HP and the setup program only gives me the
option

of a 1024mb partition.

I managed to get around this problem by formatting the disk in NT first
as

4GB partition and then installing NT as usual. This worked fine until I
mirrored the drive and broke it. It wouldn't boot from the back up
drive.

After selecting the backup system it would say the NTKernal was missing
and I should re-install the file. This drive would also not boot if I
put it in the place of the working boot drive. Considering it is a
broken mirror why doesn't it boot? On my 1024mb boot partition machine
I could swap the drives around to my hearts content and it would boot
fine.

I decided to rebuild the server again and make it a 2048mb boot
partition

and see if that helped. This time when trying to install I would eject
the

cd after the first part of the setup process and reboot as usual. The

setup would get to the boot.ini blank the screen as usual, but just
hang. I

tried it a few times. I tried it from the floppies with the latest
drivers

and booting from the cd using the NT4

drivers. It made no difference.

I went through the exact same setup and made the partition 1024mb and
it

worked no problem!!! It seems I can have 4g partition or a 1024mb

partition, but nothing in between.

I thought I had a drive problem, but as the server stands now, it has a
4g

boot partition working fine, and a 1024mb partition on the second
drive

with a clean install of NT4, sp4 on it and I can boot it from my
boot.ini

no problem.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this happens?

I would welcome any ideas.

Thanks in advance

Michael</fontfamily>

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